5minute doodles

5minute doodles, take a wind-up key for inspiration and what it could become, a whale's tail, a penguin's face, opera glasses or a music-stand base. Just an exercise to loosen me up, it's been such a long time since I drawn for fun.

National Pharmacist Day

Happy National Pharmacist Day! If you pop in to Boots (or any other branded or unbranded pharmacy) be sure to greet your kindly pharmacist.

National Bird Day

Shame on me, I'm a Bowerbird and I didn't celebrate National Bird Day last Monday. I was sat at my desk in my 'studio' last night searching for a muse and I think I may have found it in the form of the National Holidays website, there are infinite amounts of useless holidays we should be celebrating. So this could become a regular post, I did a few in advance last night, excuse the dates/holidays I've missed so far, but there are some brilliant ones on the horizon.

Jon Burgerman

I went to the opening of Mr Burgerman's exhibition, Because I can't sit still last night. It was lovely to finally meet him and chat about his work, since he's been a Flickr friend for quite a while. I also asked him about his experience on Blue Peter last week, where he worked on a live mural, I'm very jealous indeed!

He had something called an 'anxiety wall' full of his doodly critters and you could buy them and they're then randomly selected for you when the show closes. So we'll see what I get for my money...

More pictures of the event here, thank you Toby for accompanying me, great night all round.

Holiday

I'm off on holiday for two weeks now, so limited blogging this week while I'm holidaying in this country. I hope to get some doodling done during this period, but in the meantime I will leave you with the beautiful sketchbook artwork of Ghost School.

Tired and lack lustre

I've felt lack lustre all day and so thought I'd share some doodle illustrations I made a while ago that demonstrate how to have ideas, if only it were that simple.

Advice includes, get out and about in the fresh air, doodle, cut out inspiring images and doodle your dreams. Maybe I should take my own advice...

Green Park doodles

I drew these a few weeks ago in Green Park and would like to make some collage pieces from them, so I'm putting them here to share, but also prompt me into action.

I Love My Brompton

Apologies for the flurry of blogging activity, this illustration is a work in progress I thought I'd share.

I love my compact pal, I did try and give it a pet name, but Brompetta just didn't stick, so for now my lovely companion is just Brompton. It has a friend called Brompty.

There's a Brompton race happening at Blenheim Palace, but sadly I'm on holiday otherwise I would have joined all the other eccentric Brompton owners, I love that the rules stipulate all entrants must wear a jacket, shirt and tie.

Think outside the box

A recent doodle for a Shell brainstorm.

Triangle trends

I spotted this in Benefit's window, I like their use of illustration for 'b spot', it's very on-trend with geometric doodly fillers. YCN are a big fan of this style, their represented illustrators have their finger on the popular pulse, there's always the fear of being seen as chichi, but I think this illustration works well, especially on a large scale.

I'm a sucker for Benefit's packaging, always quirky, tongue-in-cheek and antiquated. However this particular illustration is verging on the style of Dirty Girl packaging.